Eating disorders and major depression: role of anger and personality.

Depress Res Treat

Eating Disorders Program, Section of Psychiatry, Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin, Via Cherasco 11, 10126 Turin, Italy.

Published: November 2011

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  • * It found that 19.5% of ED patients had comorbid MD, with higher rates among those with Anorexia Binge-Purging and Bulimia Nervosa, and 48.7% reported significant depressive symptoms, revealing that irritability was common in MD patients.
  • * The research indicated that specific personality traits, such as high Harm Avoidance (HA) and low Self-Directedness (SD), were significant predictors of MD, emphasizing the need for long-term studies to explore these traits' impact on ED

Article Abstract

This study aimed to evaluate comorbidity for MD in a large ED sample and both personality and anger as clinical characteristics of patients with ED and MD. We assessed 838 ED patients with psychiatric evaluations and psychometric questionnaires: Temperament and Character Inventory, Eating Disorder Inventory-2, Beck Depression Inventory, and State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory. 19.5% of ED patients were found to suffer from comorbid MD and 48.7% reported clinically significant depressive symptomatology: patients with Anorexia Binge-Purging and Bulimia Nervosa were more likely to be diagnosed with MD. Irritable mood was found in the 73% of patients with MD. High Harm Avoidance (HA) and low Self-Directedness (SD) predicted MD independently of severity of the ED symptomatology, several clinical variables, and ED diagnosis. Assessing both personality and depressive symptoms could be useful to provide effective treatments. Longitudinal studies are needed to investigate the pathogenetic role of HA and SD for ED and MD.

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